ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series

Series Editor

Margery Boichel Thompson

Since 1776, extraordinary men and women have represented the United States abroad under widely varying circumstances. What they did and how and why they did it remain little known to their compatriots. In 1995, the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) and DACOR, an organization of foreign affairs professionals, created the Diplomats and Diplomacy book series to increase public knowledge and appreciation of the professionalism of American diplomats and their involvement in world history. The story of Harriet Elam-Thomas’s trajectory from growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston to heading the U.S. embassy in Dakar, Senegal, is the sixty-second volume in the series.